meth(meta-=after)+od(way)→方法;体系;秩序(=a way after,a following after)
🗣️ 情景例句
My boss is a slave driver.
我的老板指使我们像指使奴隶似的。
Do you usually lenrn Japanese on Saturday?
你通常在星期六学日文吗?
In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away protection money was paid to them.